“If it becomes overcrowded, what’s going to happen? Will there be spill-over into the neighbouring park, which is just literally footsteps away?” Turcotte wonders.
“What we want to do is take that consumption from outside, and bring it inside under supervision. That means less syringes, it means less people having crises in the streets,” he explained.Turcotte wonders if the new site could cause more drug dealers to descend on the neighbourhood.An online petition against the facility has more than 1,600 signatures, but not all parents in the area have signed.
If it’s not possible to move the safe injection site, Turcotte wants to be reassured things will run smoothly.
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